About

Raghuraman Sundararajan is a highly experienced Senior Manager III at PayPal, with over 20 years of extensive and rich IT experience in Engineering/Support Operations, Project Management, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps. He is a certified PMP, AWS & Google Cloud professional, proficient in managing DevOps, SRE, Release, Product Support functions of highly scalable, critical pricing/foreign exchange/data applications. He is also proficient in leading Data Platform Management, maintaining, and administrating underlying Data Lake, Data Movement, Data Integration, OLTP Database, and Data warehouse systems. Raghu Sundararajan runs Operations and Resiliency org for PayPal's Financial Products Platform focusing on DevOps and SRE functions. His teams are distributed across India and the USA. He is a proven leader with a large organization across multiple geo-locations, providing leadership to more than 35 Engineers with a combo of Full Time Employees & Alternate Work Force. He is responsible for budget planning, constantly reducing TCO without compromising on quality, by improving operational efficiency, process enhancement, location strategy, problem management, tooling, & automation, and strategic outsourcing. He has extensive experience in end-to-end Project Management focusing on Run the Business (RTB) support, support transition, and transformation projects. He possesses strong technical knowledge in Oracle, Informatica, BigData, Teradata, Big Query, CI/CD, Data Science, Business Intelligence, and skilled experience in Production Support & Maintenance projects. Raghu has led several successful projects, including the transformation of Development support organization into a performing DevOps/SRE organization to scale and automate. He has formed a unified Data Operations org integrating many silo orgs like EDW, Batch, ETL, BML Ops, etc., to gain efficiency and to provide similar, elevated user experience to customers. He has played a significant role in building a platform support organization for RDBMS systems, Hadoop & Teradata platforms. He has driven down the cost of operations by 50%, built various reliability/efficiency tools like Crystal, Optimus, CoBots, participated in on-prem to Google Cloud Transformation, support CI/CD pipeline and DevOps tools, and responsible for BCP/DR. Currently, Raghu is working as a Senior Manager III at PayPal, where he leads the Operations & Resiliency team (DevOps/SRE) for PayPal's Financial Products Platform. He provides 24*